Playwrite ES
Designed By
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playwrite ES · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Playwrite ES ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Mi cuaderno de caligrafía
A Note On The Page
Playwrite ES · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
Mi cuaderno de caligrafía
Extra Light200
Mi cuaderno de caligrafía
Light300
Mi cuaderno de caligrafía
Regular400
Mi cuaderno de caligrafía
The b and the p have knots in them, little loops where the stroke crosses itself before moving on. Then the z, drawn in an italic manner, quite unlike the rest of the alphabet. Those details come straight from how children in Spain are taught to write, and Playwrite ES (España in full) keeps them.
Spanish primary school cursive is structurally joined but has no slant. Schools teach it in 1 of 2 ways. The hybrid version joins the lowercase and pairs it with simple, unjoined print capitals, and that is the version in textbooks from Cuadernos Rubio, Santillana Educación, Editorial Barcanova and Tekman Education. The fully cursive version has ornate, traditional capitals.
This font is the hybrid, a continuous cursive lowercase with roots in French models. Ascenders and descenders are of medium length with loops, and several lowercase letters start with a curved entry stroke. The capitals are simplified and print-like. Except the I, which has serifs.
TypeTogether, Veronika Burian and José Scaglione built it as part of Playwrite, the school fonts grounded in Primarium’s research into handwriting models around the world. It covers more than 150 languages written in Latin script, though it will look most at home on a Spanish worksheet.
There are 4 weights, Thin, ExtraLight, Light and Regular, all of them on the light side, which suits a model for tracing. For practice sheets with ruled lines there is a sibling, Playwrite ES Guides.
Characters & Figures
486 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Playwrite ES
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 387 KB ↓- Version
- 1.003
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/playwrite-es-2/playwrite-es-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playwrite ES', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playwrite ES Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.